Less than a month till one year old!

It is Sunday, August 17th and we can't believe that in less than a month, we will have already had Jackson an entire year. Wow, how the times fly. We are finally at a place in life where we are not traveling all the time, like we have been all summer long. It is nice to get back to a routine and fortunately, Jackson has readjusted very well. He is getting so big and is on the verge of walking. He has this new face he has been making. He has learned to kiss (and somewhat blow kisses...although usually he prefers to just to mouth to mouth). He is into EVERYTHING. He loves to open drawers and pull everything our and attempt to put it back. He is trying new foods. Just today, he tried cornbread and jello. There isn't much he doesn't like...at this point. I am sure he will turn into a picky eater like his mom and dad were as kids. Here are some updated images. Enjoy

After 5,223 miles of traveling over the summer we are in Ruston at last. The past week was so much fun. Jackson and I traveled to GA while Jonathan was in New Mexico at College Week. In GA, Jackson and I played a lot! We went to the Chattanooga Zoo, swam at Mr. Bills, had a birthday party, and played downtown. It was so much fun. We are so thankful to our friends and family for such a great week!!

Will the traveling ever stop...

Well, it is the latter part of July and we have officially been going non-stop it seems, for an entire month now.

Just to recap: June 23rd we left for Louisiana Director and Family Retreat in Arkansas, left there to go to Flintstone, Georgia for a few days. Jonathan's family picked us up and we drove to Hilton Head, South Carolina for a week, went back to Flintstone and picked up Shelby and Regan (nieces) and drove to Ruston, Louisiana for a 10 day stay with the girls. We left on the 16th of July for Panama City Beach as Jonathan is working X.Fuge. While at PCB, Aimee and Victoria got to come down for a long weekend. It was Victoria's first time to ever see the ocean. She was quite impressed. We will get back to Louisiana on Saturday, July 26th and stay for a few days until Erin goes to Flintstone for a week while Jonathan goes to New Mexico for a Collegiate Ministry Conference.

THEN, hopefully after that, things will settle down for a while. Poor Jackson is a tad bit thrown off of his schedule, thus sleeps with us every night it seems. It is great though. We are getting a lot of family time and it feels like one massive vacation.

Camp DJ

This week has been an incredible week! Regan and Shelby have been here all week. We have gotten to play, be lazy, swim, and just be together!! It has been wonderful. Today they both got their ears pierced! They were so brave!!

VACATION

We just got home from an amazing vacation to Hilton Head SC. We went with the entire Clark side of the family. It was a BLAST!! Jonathan's parents rented a house for us, Billy (Jonathan's brother) and Monica and their four kids, Mike (Jonathan's other brother) and Tracey all came. There were 13 of us and we hung out at the pool, on the beach, at the tennis courts, the men played golf. We shopped. It was wonderful.

TEETH...

Last week began with the arrival of 3 new teeth. Jackson woke up on Monday with 2 teeth on the top and 1 on the bottom. FUN FUN!! I know that you can't see his teeth in this picture but Jackson had his 9 month old pictures taken and we wanted to share them!! You can see all of them at www.donaldpagephotography.com. On the site click on client access and then portraits and then Jackson Clark 9 months. Hope you enjoy!!

Sad times..

So we haven't had a new post in a couple of weeks because Jonathan's computer crashed AGAIN! We lost most of our pictures from Memorial day weekend except the ones that were still on the camera. I hate it! Oh well, life goes on!!

Things in the Clark family are running smooth. We got home from being in Flintstone and were off to be in Tracie Bryan's wedding. It was a lot of fun. We also have gotten to go swimming a few times which is loads of fun. Jackson has started to really like the water! As for us on an individual basis, Jonathan is working hard at the BCM and working a lot outside. He has been riding his bike a lot too! Sure does help with the price of gas these days! I have been spring cleaning and loving it. I love to walk into a room that is cleaned out!! I just finished Jackson's room and will now start on our room. Our room will be a big task because it seems to catch everything! Jackson is crawling everywhere and pulling up! He will be 9 months old tomorrow! It is neat to watch him learn so many new things.

We are all getting really excited about our vacation. We can't wait to hang out with family and see the beach again! Jackson is going to be so much fun!